I first created this website in 2006, and in the fourteen years between then and when I’m writing this now it just kept getting slower and slower. Even moving to dedicated hosting didn’t help very much. So, in April 2020 I blew it all up to start over. As part of that process I’ve begun doing most of my blogging over at Patreon. Thus, you can find all of that right here –> Rhonda Parrish’s Patreon.
Not only can you read many of the posts there without being a paid patron (including all the Calls for Submissions and important updates) if you click the ‘follow’ button on that page it will email you whenever I post a public update as well.
Also, even though I blew up the old blog that was here I wasn’t willing to lose fourteen years worth of work.
Luckily for me, my friend BD Wilson knows a thing or two about this kind of stuff and was willing to help me out. BD archived the old blog for me, so if you’re looking for something that was posted pre-April 2020 your best bet is going to be to check here –> RhondaParrish.com Blog Archive
Really important updates like book releases will also be blogged here as ‘Important announcements’.
Important Announcements
Blindspots is out today!
My computer hates me! That is not how I expected to begin this blog post, but here we are. It's release day for Blindspots, I'm meant to be shouting the news from rooftops but instead my computer is being a big old jerkface and not doing what it's supposed to. Rawr!...
An Aurora Award Nomination!
Holy. I should not start this blog post with this, but I'm going to anyway. You would not believe how many tries it took for me to come up with a title for this post. It was truly remarkable, which, is probably why I'm remarking upon it 🙂 I am incredibly excited to...
Blindspots – Chapter One
The war is over. Ricky just wants to lick his wounds and learn what the new normal is going to look like for him, but his brother has gone missing. Now Ricky needs to team up with his wartime friends (and at least one dog he’d hoped never to see again) to find him,...
Saltwater Sorrows
Saltwater SorrowsDeep, mysterious, beautiful . . . dangerous . . . Women and the sea have been tied together in myth and story from the beginning of time. Tales of women being drawn to the sea or being left on the shore, waiting for their men’s return, have been...
Blindspots
The war is over. Ricky just wants to lick his wounds and learn what the new normal is going to look like for him, but his brother has gone missing. Now Ricky needs to team up with his wartime friends (and at least one dog he’d hoped never to see again) to find him,...
Blanket Fort (and writing)
I don't remember what it was called back in 2018 when I created my Discord server. Something about NaNoWriMo? Man... I know it's only 5 years ago but it feels like a whole lifetime. Anyway. Yes, I created my Discord server in 2018. Back then it was mostly just myself...
The Chimps and I
I have a thing for chimpanzees. Not like the whole 'chimp dressed up as a person ha ha isn't that funny?' thing, in fact, I kind of hate that thing. What I love is chimpanzees just being chimpanzees. The thing that opened my eyes to how amazing chimps are, sadly...
Award Eligibility – 2022 Edition
Each year I write and share a list of my work from the previous year that is award eligible. It's an interesting exercise in pride, in humility. It always feels a little big odd to say, "Here are the things I created last year -- do you think they are exceptional?...
Goals for 2023
At the start of each calendar year I spend some time thinking about what I want to achieve over the next twelve months and setting goals connected to that. Then, at the end of the year I look back and see how I've done at achieving the goals I set. Often when I look...
Looking Back at 2022
Part of my annual process involves setting goals for myself at the start of the year and then looking back at the end of the year to see how I've done at achieving them. Last year was a slippery tricksy thing and I had difficulty even sitting down to do set my goals....
